Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.

I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.

[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.

One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies.

Nobody accomplishes success by themselves.

The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon section, is what the psychologist Robert Sternberg calls "practical intelligence." To Sternberg, practical intelligence includes things like "knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for for maximum effect.